Isaiæ 35:6

Nova Vulgata

Qui responderunt: "Non bibemus vinum, quia Ionadab filius Rechab pater noster praecepit nobis dicens: "Non bibetis vinum, vos et filii vestri, usque in sempiternum

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
tunc saliet sicut cervus claudus, et aperta erit lingua mutorum : quia sciss� sunt in deserto aqu�, et torrentes in solitudine ;

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Qui responderunt Non bibemus vinum, quia Jonadab filius Rechab, pater noster, pr�cepit nobis, dicens: Non bibetis vinum, vos et filii vestri, usque in sempiternum:

Bible Verse Review
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Jonadab: 2 Kings 10:15, 1 Chronicles 2:55

Ye shall: Jonadab, a man of fervent zeal for the pure worship of God, and who lived about three hundred years before this time - 2 Kings 10:15, 2 Kings 10:16, etc. had probably practised these rules himself; and having trained up his children to habits of abstemiousness, he enjoined them and their posterity to adhere to them. In these regulations he seems to have had no religious, but merely a prudential view, as is intimated in the reason annexed to them "that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers." And this would be the natural consequence of observing these rules; for their temperate mode of living would very much contribute to preserve health and prolong life; and they would avoid giving umbrage, or exciting the jealousy or envy of the Jews, who might have been provoked, by their engaging and succeeding in the principal business in which they themselves were engaged, agriculture and vine-dressing to expel them their country; by which they would have been deprived of the religious advantages they enjoyed. In 1 Chronicles 2:55, they are termed scribes, which intimates that they were engaged in some kind of literary employments. Leviticus 10:9, Numbers 6:2-5, Judges 13:7, Judges 13:14, Luke 1:15, 1 Corinthians 7:26-31, all, Jeremiah 35:10, Genesis 25:27, Leviticus 23:42, Leviticus 23:43, Nehemiah 8:14-16, Hebrews 11:9-13, 1 Peter 2:11, that ye, Genesis 36:7, Exodus 20:12, 1 Chronicles 16:19, Psalms 105:12, Ephesians 6:2, Ephesians 6:3

Reciprocal: Numbers 6:3 - General Jeremiah 35:14 - words

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But they said, we will drink no wine,.... Or "we do not drink wine" e; we are not used to it; we never do drink any; it is not lawful for us to do it; nor will we, let who will solicit us:

for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father; not their immediate father, but their progenitor; perhaps the same Jonadab is meant who lived in the times of Jehu, and rode with him in his chariot; by which it appears he was a man of note and figure, and who lived near three hundred years before this time, 2 Kings 10:15; which is more likely than that he should be a descendant of his, and the proper father of the present Rechabites, which is the opinion of Scaliger f:

commanded us, saying, ye shall drink no wine, [neither ye], nor your sons, for ever; as long as any of them were in the world. What was the reason of this command, and of what follows, is not easy to say; whether it was to prevent quarrels and contentions, luxury and sensuality; or to inure them to hardships; or to put them in remembrance that they were but strangers in the land in which they lived; or to retain them in the original course of life their ancestors had lived in, feeding cattle; be it what it will, these his sons thought themselves under obligations to observe it; and perhaps finding, by experience, it was for their good so to do.

e לא נשתה יין "non hibimus vinum", Vatablus, Schmidt. f Elench. Trihaeres. Serrar. c. 24.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wine is the symbol of a settled life, because the vine requires time for its growth and care in its cultivation, while the preparation of the wine itself requires buildings, and it then has to be stored up before it is ready for use. The drink of nomads consists of the milk of their herds.

Jeremiah 35:7

Strangers - Because not of Jewish blood, though wandering in their territory.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 35:6. We will drink no wine — The reason is given above. Their whole religious and political institution consisted in obedience to three simple precepts, each of which has an appropriate spiritual meaning: -

1. Ye shall drink no wine — Ye shall preserve your bodies in temperance, shall use nothing that would deprive you of the exercise of your sober reason at any time; lest in such a time ye should do what might be prejudicial to yourselves, injurious to your neighbour, or dishonourable to your God.

2. Neither shall ye build house — Ye shall not become residents in any place; ye shall not court earthly possessions; ye shall live free from ambition and from envy, that ye may be free from contention and strife.

3. But-ye shall dwell in tents — Ye shall imitate your forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the rest of the patriarchs, who dwelt in tents, being strangers and pilgrims upon earth, looking for a heavenly country, and being determined to have nothing here that would indispose their minds towards that place of endless rest, or prevent them from passing through temporal things so as not to lose those that are eternal.

There must necessarily be more in these injunctions than meets the eye in the letter of this account.